Benjamin Disraeli, quotes, quotations, famous quotes

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.